Security Advisory

CVE-2005-2708

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2005-10-25 04:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 22:45:02
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

The search_binary_handler function in exec.c in Linux 2.4 kernel on 64-bit x86 architectures does not check a return code for a particular function call when virtual memory is low, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic), as demonstrated by running a process using the bash ulimit -v command.